Corrected entry: At the end of the film Malcolm Crowe comes down the stairs to the living room. The camera is at a low angle looking up from the living room floor toward the vestibule area at the foot of the stairs. There is a leather covered sofa and two overstuffed leather chairs crammed side by side to fit into the space. Crowe's wife is slouched in one of the chairs. The camera changes to above, the wife falls asleep and drops Crowe's ring, which now rolls over open floor boards. Where did all the furniture go?
Corrected entry: At one point, driving down Haymarket, they turn left into a side street to take a shortcut round Trafalgar Square. The next scene shows the Rhys Ifans character stopping the traffic next to Admiralty Arch to let the car come out of a side street. However, to get to the street out of which they are shown as emerging, the car would have had to drive all the way round Trafalgar Square and turn left off Cockspur Street, almost back where they started. The street they turned into off Haymarket comes out on Pall Mall East and the only way to go is along the north side of Trafalgar Square. So unless there's a wormhole between the two streets, the shortcut was anything but.
Correction: They have an argument in the movie about exactly this. They discuss if the route they're taking is really a shortcut. So Bernie, who suggested this route, is wrong.
Corrected entry: When Angie gets her hand scanned by PAT. PAT is able to tell her age, illnesses, injuries and if she has broken bones. Sara explains it uses a DNA sample for these tests. DNA samples do not hold this kind of information.
Correction: The sample would be used to find her medical history on file with the hospital that has the information.
Corrected entry: When Jeff Bridges is researching Tim Robbins, he goes to the Kansas City Star as his source. The web page says the Star is the leading source of news in Kansas. However, the Kansas City Star is published in Kansas City, Missouri, not Kansas City, Kansas.
Correction: It may be published in KC Missouri, but it doesn't mean that the paper isn't read in Kansas. Where I live is a very small town, but we get newspapers from Vancouver, 300 miles away, and Calgary, 250 miles away, and in another province. Both are far better news sources than the weekly newspaper we have here.
Corrected entry: The Collector is never identified by name, even in the Japanese version. But despite popular belief, his name is not "Lawrence III," it is Gelarden (or Jirarudan from the romanization of the katakana used to spell his name). The English dub using closed-captioning will show this.
Correction: While the closed captioning of the movie refers to him as "Gelardan", the official novelization refers to him as Lawrence III, and calls him "Stealthius" twice. His name in English is not well-defined, but Lawrence III is just as valid as any other name given.
Corrected entry: In the scene where Peter, Michael and Samir are talking about Joanna sleeping with Lumbergh, Peter realizes that he had the wrong Lumbergh and says, "you mean Ron Lumbergh, the Innatrode guy, the young guy?" But if you watch his lips, he does not say Innatrode. (01:10:50)
Correction: Watching the line over and over, it's clear he says "Innatrode" and his lips are in sync.
Corrected entry: Right before Deuce destroys the apartment, he sticks a cheese sandwich in the toaster that is already toasted. (02:05:20)
Correction: This is showing you how dumb he is. He toasted the bread first then put cheese on the bread and toasted it again to melt the cheese. Not a mistake.
Corrected entry: After Mel Gibson's toes are smashed with a hammer, he proceeds to drive across town, seemingly in no pain whatsoever.
Corrected entry: Riton makes some money as a Coca Cola-style Santa Claus, but this figure was created in 1931, that is one year later as the film is set, and still needed many years to make its way into France. (01:37:00)
Correction: This is one of those Internet lies that Coca-Cola invented Santa Claus as we know him today. The bearded, jolly fat man in a red suit existed long before that. The 1823 poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas", with illustration, demonstrates this, also Harper's Weekly magazine ran a series of engravings by Thomas Nast between 1863 and 1886 which depicted him very much like the "modern" Santa.
Corrected entry: One scene shows the star baby making an escape from parents in his pram. To get there he dons a disguise of long coat, scarf and holds a big cigar. Each of these articles is discarded, yet when we see the baby girl he switched clothes with, the baby girl has the cigar in her hand.
Correction: No he doesn't. When he discards the cigar he runs straight to the baby carriage in the same shot. In the next shot with him in the baby carriage we are only able to see his left hand which does not have the cigar in it.
Corrected entry: When the popular girls are shopping, they have just walked out of a shop and are talking about an acceptance speech. As she has finished her speech about she will win no matter what just as the movie goes to the next scene you can see the middle girl's earring fell off.
Correction: Perhaps the girl just did not know her earring fell off, her not noticing it isn't a mistake. Sometimes my own earrings have fallen out and I don't realize until I get home in the evening.
Corrected entry: During the wedding rehearsal scene, Jordan asks to speak with Harper alone. When she kisses him, the same movements and kiss are repeated back to back.
Correction: The repeated movements/kiss seem to be on purpose, for effect.
Corrected entry: Near the beginning of the film, Kristin Scott Thomas' character is referred to as a Democratic senator. However, later in the film at a fundraising event in her honour - there is a sign behind her saying Kay Chandler Republican for Congress.
Correction: She refers to the "democratic process" - not being a Democratic Senator.
Corrected entry: When Matthew Perry is hanging out with Neve Campbell and her friends, he's standing up talking about how men aren't a piece of meat etc, and he has an empty margarita glass and a pitcher. At the end of his speech his glass is full and he takes a drink from it.
Correction: Oscar grabs the margarita glass from Amy when he gets up. He proceeds to grab the blender full of margaritas. You don't see him pour it out in the glass, but you could imagine that he did during the shot where it cut to the laughing women.
Corrected entry: As McKenzie gets nervous and starts to break down in the toilet, much of the crew is visible in the mirror.
Correction: The whole film is based on a documentary being shot, therefore the "crew" members are simultaneously part of the cast.
Corrected entry: In the same scene where the blanket shrinks to the size of a cape, you can see Alvin's bed behind that has no blanket on it. You can also see Theodore's bed which never had the blanket taken off but that too is bare.
Correction: Alvin's bed has no blanket on it because Simon is using it as a cape. You can only see the very top of Theodore's bed, where the pillow and the top of the blanket is. The blanket has a light green border at the top, before it is checkered. Which is what you see in the tiny bit of Theodore's bed that's in the shot.
Corrected entry: Before the village is attacked, Ibn catches a chainmail armor which is thrown to him. He then, very easily, slips into it as if it were made of plastic. If it was real chainmail, it would weigh about 60 pounds. Also, the usual way of dressing up in chainmail armor is to "roll" it on inside out, and the weight would require the assistance of a second person.
Correction: Chainmail weighs about 25-30 pounds at its heaviest. One person could put a shirt on alone, but catching one would take some strength, of which Ahmed Ibn Fadlan did not posess in the movie.
Corrected entry: When Maggie and Ike are outside the luau arguing, Ike is pacing in front of Maggie and her back is to the camera. The camera pans to the left and passes by Maggie, then another figure, which turns out to be another cameraman with a camera on his shoulder.
Correction: The "cameraman" that is visible is a regular character in the movie that is often seen filming with a personal camcorder. He is seen filming at the wedding, for instance.
Corrected entry: When Father Moody comes to talk to the family, he finds Mr. Lisbon having a beer as he watched a baseball game on TV. His beer was a Corona, which wasn't brought to the United States from Mexico until the 1980s.
Correction: The beer is actually a Miller High Life, which fits the era.
Corrected entry: When Mary is in the confessional booth at the end of the movie, the priest acts shocked that it is Mary. But why would he have left the talent contest to go to the confessional without knowing that she was the one who needed to see him?
Correction: This 'error' was actually a deliberate religious plot stand-point of the film (as Shannon is Irish-Catholic, pretty much what the movie is based upon). Much like the God-character visiting Mary in her room, the Priest appears in the confessional booth at this time as a symbol to Mary, in her desperate time of need to win the contest, but for other reasons.
Correction: The only furniture visible (related to this "mistake") is the couch on which she is sleeping and the couch which he sits on. There is plenty of space between them for the shot to happen and we aren't shown anything to be in between the two couches.
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